Trump unveils ‘Board of Peace’

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump headed home from Davos on Thursday after unveiling his new "Board of Peace" and once again casting himself as a global peacemaker, despite widespread scepticism over a plan that aims to rewrite the world order.

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Trump officials also unveiled ambitious plans for a "New Gaza" during the ceremony at the World Economic Forum, the US leader describing the devastated Palestinian territory as "great real estate".

Trump later met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, with both describing their talks as good and the US leader saying Russia's nearly four-year-old war with Kyiv "has to end".

Zelensky announced "trilateral" talks between Washington, Moscow and Kyiv in the coming days, and said he had reached agreement with Trump on postwar US security guarantees for Ukraine - although he conceded that dialogue with the US president was "not simple".

And the Ukrainian leader hit out at European allies for being too slow to counter Russian President Vladimir Putin, asking: "What's missing: time or political will?"

Trump's "Board of Peace" was created after he expressed frustration at failing to win the Nobel Peace Prize and ramped up accusations the UN had failed to resolve a host of international conflicts.

"Well this is exciting," Trump said as he was joined on stage by leaders and officials from 19 countries to sign the board's founding charter in the Swiss ski resort.